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Jerry Marquis Spun Out Of Top Ten At Lime Rock; Finishes Eleventh
Lime Rock, Conn. (August 18, 2007) - Jerry Marquis was on his way to a
top-ten finish at Lime Rock Park, the only road course on the NASCAR
Grand National Division, Busch East ...

Jerry Marquis Spun Out Of Top Ten At Lime Rock; Finishes Eleventh

Lime Rock, Conn. (August 18, 2007) - Jerry Marquis was on his way to a
top-ten finish at Lime Rock Park, the only road course on the NASCAR
Grand National Division, Busch East Series schedule, until contact with
another competitor sent him spinning off the track with just one-third of
the race distance still to go. He fell back to nineteenth, but recovered
to finish 11th in the No. 35 Waste Management Recycle America Dodge
Charger.

Marquis turned laps good enough for seventh-fastest in the first practice
session and tenth quickest in the second. Qualifying didn't go as well as
he timed in half a second slower than his best practice lap, but that was
still good enough for twelfth place.

"We lost some time, but we still have a decent place to start the race
from," the Broad Brook, Connecticut driver said. It's important to have
good track position and to be in front of trouble, and I think we'll be
able to do that with where we're starting. Waste Management Recycle
America is going to have a lot of people here for the race so we should
give them something to cheer about."

185 employees and guests of Waste Management Recycle America were treated
to a hospitality event at Lime Rock Park on Saturday. They saw Marquis
put their car into the top ten just four laps into the event until he
gave up that position on lap 20 of 82 when he made a required pit stop
for gas.

The race was stopped during the middle of green-flag pit stops and
because the track's electronic scoring loop did not extend all the way
into Marquis' pit stall, he was not scored for the lap that he did pit.
It took some time for NASCAR scoring to determine that he was indeed on
the lead lap, and he restarted the race in third place.

Marquis survived a tangle in the first turn after a lap 49 restart that
shuffled him back to eight place. Two laps later, another driver hit the
No. 35 Dodge exiting Big Bend and spun it into the grass. Marquis
rejoined the race at the rear of the field, but spent the remaining
thirty laps passing car after car on his way back to the top ten, winding
up one position short.

"We were just trying to fight for position and stuff, and wound up
getting turned around," he said after the race. "It's not exactly what
you want to have happen to you. They had a lot of cautions and stuff, and
that didn't help us trying to get back to where we should have been. We
had a good car up until that point. We weren't quite right with the
gearing, which hurt us when it came time for shifting, so we'll have to
try something a little different next time and see what happens.

"We stayed on the lead lap, stayed on the race track almost the whole
time, but sometimes I guess the other guys need to learn that they have
to give each other a little room once in a while," he continued.